M4A transcoding failing

[tumtum1088]

I can't seem to get my web player or my android app to play M4A files. I'm running the most recent versions on both. They load up album art and song length but stay at 0 when i hit play. On the android app it gives an "prepare failed.: status 0x1(IO Exception "status error. Any help would be appreciated. - Thanks , Tumtum1088

[stozher]

One step with a fixed bit rate (all tags transferred to MP3)

Step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -f mp3 -ar 44100 -ab 320k -ac 2 -map_meta_data 0:0 -
Step 2: none (blank)

or two step transcoding (above is a better choice)

Step 1: ffmpeg -i %s -f wav -ar 44100 -ac 2 -
Step 2: lame --preset cbr %b -S --tt %t --ta %a --tl %l - -

See also http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17540#17540

PP: Mark check boxes right from Step 3 and check players settings (log as admin to see all players).

[TJungus]

Stozher, thank you for this information! I now have access to listen to ALL my music!

[sonicdivx]

@stozher

Thanks for the post, was haviing the same issue upon upgrading to newest beta.

[stozher]

See also: http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19145#19145

[sonicdivx]

I am still getting the Prepare failed: status=0x1 (IOException) error. regardle of method I use.

do I need to restart server or do something else (increase server memory setting, maybe)

[EDIT] this is on an Android phone and occurs on both Wi-fi and Data network

thanks